CHILD SAFETY PROGRAMMES
The method behind "never leave them unsupervised."
If safety around the dog is the worry, start here: the rules that keep a child and a dog out of each other’s way when nobody is watching.
Everyone says it. Almost nobody says what it looks like at 6pm on a Tuesday with two children, a dog and one adult.
And there's a finding that should change what we teach: children read escalation signals — the growl, the bared teeth — more easily than the quiet early ones. A system that depends on a child noticing depends on the thing children reliably get wrong.
So this gives the child a real job that builds habit without requiring judgement, and leaves the risk where it belongs.
Inside
- what an adult owns, and what is never a child's decision
- children carry routine within limits
- Driver and Navigator — one dog, one voice
- green, yellow, red
- what children can do and must never do
- the truth rule
- doorbells and visitors
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